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Abraham Lincoln wa the sixteenth president of the United States.
Lincoln helped keep America from breaking apart in its greatest crisis, the Civil War. He helped put an end to slavery.
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Primary sources are actual records that have been handed down from the past. Speeches and letters aren't the only primary sources. So are diaries, maps, and government documents.
Notes to a friend or e-mail messages are primary sources.
A picture of your mother is a primary source.
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Secondary sources are descriptions written by people about events some time after they happened. Your history textbook is a secondary source. An encyclopedia is a secondary source. So is this biography of Lincoln.
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Serious students use primary sources in writing reports and biographies.
In working with a primary source, try to understand its meaning. When was it written? Where was it written? Why was it written? What audience was being addressed? What was the speaker seeking to accomplish?
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Lincoln's mother died from the disease, known as milk sickness swept across southwestern Indiana. It was caused by poison in the milk of cows. It resulted when the cows ate a poisonous plant called white snakeroot.
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Sarah Bush Johnston, their new stepmother. She was a loving and fair-minded woman. She raised her two stepchildren as her own. Lincoln once described her as "my angel mother."
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Young Abraham never liked farmwork. He said, "My father taught me to work, but he never taught me to like it."
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All of his schooling totaled no more than one year.
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Lincoln loved to read.
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History and biography interested him the most.
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Lincoln and Dennis Hanks would walk over to Gentryville when chores were done for the day. At the Gentryville general store, he and Dennis and other farm boys would sit around and swap stories and jokes. He became a skilled storyteller.
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Lincoln and a friend named Allen Gentry took a cargo of meat, corn, and flour to New Orleans by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The journey was a voyage of discovery for young Lincoln. It opened his eyes to the world beyond Little Pigeon Creek.
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In March 1830, Thomas Lincoln moved his family to a farm about ten miles west of Decatur in Illinois.
Lincoln was hired by Denton Offutt to work as a manager in the general store in New Salem, a village on the Sangomon River northwest of Springfield.
He lived there for six years.
Denton Offutt boasted that Lincoln was the best wrestler in New Salem.
Lincoln always told the truth.
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Legislature made the laws for the state.
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Being a lawyer was the surest way to become successful in policics.
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In 1832, Lincoln ran for the Illinois Legislature, he lost.
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In 1833, Lincoln was named postmaster of New Salem.
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In 1834, Lincoln ran for the State Legislature a second time. He won at the age of twenty-five.
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| Which war had broken out in 1846? |
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| Presisent James K. Polk started the war with Mexico. Then Mexico signed a peacce treaty. Unter its term, the United States got land from Mexico that became the president states of California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. |
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Lincoln always ate lightly.
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He hated the nickname - Abe.
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He flavored his arguments with humor and amusing stories.
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| He became known for his absolute honesty. It was his trademark He came to be called "Honest Abe." |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act upset Lincoln's view. It could trigger new growth for slavery. |
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| "Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice." |
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| Most Southerners strongly supported Douglas and his efforts to extend slavery into the territories. Northerners were furious. They worked to limit slavery's spread. The anger that developed on both sides helped to bring on the Civil War. |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act helped to create a new political party: the Republican party. The Republicans believed slavery to be evil. Many Whigs joined the new Republican party. Lincoln was one of them. |
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| When and where did the Civic War begin? |
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| On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter. The Civil War had begun. |
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| When and which states established the Confederate States of America? |
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| In January 1861, representatives of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama. They established the Confederate States of America. |
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| What's the advantages the North had during the Civic War? |
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| A bigger population wasn't the Norths only advantage, the North had greater industiral strength. It had many hundres of factories. These could make rifles, cannons, trains and warships. The South was devoted mainly to farming. There was little heavy industry. |
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| Was Lincoln a patient man? |
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| Abraham Lincoln was often a patient man. He could put up with long delay. He could waif for the right moment. It was wrong to force an issue, Lincoln believed. It was better to allow events to unfold naturally. |
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| Lincoln cited the pear tree. "A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!" |
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| Slavery was the main cause the war. It was the reason that the Southern states had left the Union. It made no sense to fight a war without destroying the thing that had caused it. |
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| When did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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| What's the Thirteenth Amendment? |
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| The Thirteenth Amendment was approved - ratified - by the states on December 18, 1865. The amendement outlawed slavery in every part of America forever. |
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| In 1909, the hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, the Lincoln cent was issued. It was the first American coin to bear a president's image. The first five-dollar bills with Lincoln's image were issued in 1924. Lincoldn's image appeared on the one-hundred-dollar-bill in 1869. |
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| Lincoln's name has come to indicate honesty. |
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